Floods prompt focus on drainage

The Baw Baw Shire will review its road and drainage maintenance program to try to lessen the effects of future floods.

Roads have been cut indefinitely in West Gippsland by about 130 landslips caused by torrential rain earlier this year.

Residents near Yarragon have to make a one hour detour to get to town because of the blockages.

Tim Frederico from the Baw Baw Shire says in some areas extra maintenance on drains and culverts would not have helped.

"We had one of our crews out cleaning a culvert only a week before we had the rains and within a week it had blocked again," he said.

"We need to remember that the soil we've got with the amount of rain that we've had down there is really like sticky treacle and once it moves a little bit and gets into those culverts it can block very quickly."